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It is now official. Bottled water has outpaced carbonated soft drinks to become the largest beverage category, by volume, in America. That means bottled water is now the Nation's favorite packaged beverage. To celebrate this historic event, IBWA has developed a social media campaign called "Bottled Water Is No.1 for a Reason." This campaign thanks consumers for choosing healthy hydration and identifies some of the many reasons consumers choose bottled water over other packaged beverages. The items in this new toolkit (below) provide members with a variety of Facebook posts, Instagram images, Pinterest pins, Twitter tweets, and web posters that you can share online with your customers, legislators, friends, and family. IBWA members are encouraged to share this bottled water good news story with your employees, customers, family, media, and legislators to educate them about this historic event.

"The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) and the bottled water industry have been working to provide bottled water to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Since we first learned the news of this disaster, IBWA and the bottled water industry have produced, coordinated and distributed critical bottled water supplies through relief agencies and organizations such as 'Clean the World', 'Convoy of Hope,' 'American Red Cross' and 'AmeriCares' and other state and local charities.

The International Bottled Water Association's (IBWA) consumer website www.bottledwatermatters.com has launched its twentieth YouTube video, "Every Bottle Counts," a humorous and informative look at how people recycle when they are out and about in public places. A teenaged consumer explores how, when and where to recycle her empty PET plastic bottled water containers as she moves through her busy day away from home. In this short video, many U.S. communities from coast to coast that currently have public recycling programs in place are cited. Each of these communities listed report that public space recycling programs either make money or save money for their community treasuries as they make it easier for people to fully recycle unwanted bottles, cans and containers while away from home.

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Drinking water regulations are designed to protect the public health. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with developing and maintaining drinking water regulations for the 276,607,387 people served by the country's 54,293 community water systems. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates bottled water as a food product. By federal law, the FDA's regulations for bottled water must be at least as protective of public health as the EPA's regulations for public water system drinking water. Despite many similarities in EPA and FDA regulations, consumer perception regarding the safety of drinking waters varies widely. This paper examines and compares the microbial health risks of tap water and bottled water, specifically examining differences in quality monitoring, regulatory standards violations, advisories, and distribution system conditions. It also includes comparison data on the number of waterborne illness outbreaks caused by both tap and bottled water. Based on a review of existing research, it is clear that as a consequence of the differences in regulations, distribution systems, operating (manufacturing) practices, and microbial standards of quality, public drinking water supplies present a substantially higher human risk than do bottled waters for illness due to waterborne organisms.

The Bizarre Insanity of Banning Bottled Water You may have seen the news on Facebook or heard the stories on NPR: Concord, Massachusetts, has banned bottled water, and certain "liberal" colleges in Vermont have banned it, too. Al Gore spent a lot of his media attention after the huge success of Inconvenient Truth blaming bottled water...http://bottledwatermatters.org/article/bizarre-insanity-banning-bottled-water

Some groups have sought to frame drinking water issues as a "bottled water versus tap water debate" and that confuses consumers. Consumers are not uniformly replacing their public drinking water with bottled water; rather they are choosing bottled water over the other beverages available at the store and home.

Drinking water, from the tap, the bottle, or a filter, is important for healthy hydration and plays a vital role in people's lives. During National Drinking Water Week, May 4-10, 2014, the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) highlights the important role bottled water plays in our on-the-go society, in which most people meet their hydration needs through packaged beverages. For those who want to eliminate or moderate calories, sugar, caffeine, artificial flavors or colors, and other ingredients from their diet, bottled water offers consumers a safe, healthy, and convenient alternative to other packaged drinks.

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) today issued the following statement regarding legislation expected to be introduced by San Francisco Board of Supervisors Chairman, David Chiu, to ban the sale of bottled water in plastic bottles of 21 fluid ounces or less, on public property including parks, concerts, large public events, and mobile food trucks.

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The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the authoritative source of information about all types of bottled waters, mineral water bottlers, Bottled water brands, Water brands, Bottled water companies, purified water, packaged water and mineral water bottlers.

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the authoritative source of information about all types of bottled waters, mineral water bottlers, Bottled water brands, Water brands, Bottled water companies, purified water, packaged water and mineral water bottlers.

Allied Purchasing is a member-owned purchasing co-op to improve members' bottom line through volume purchasing. The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the authoritative source of information about all types of bottled waters, mineral water bottlers, Bottled water brands, Water brands, Bottled water companies, purified water, packaged water and mineral water bottlers.

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the authoritative source of information about all types of bottled waters, mineral water bottlers, Bottled water brands, Water brands, Bottled water companies, purified water, packaged water and mineral water bottlers.

In a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive®, bottled water was the Number One choice of consumers when asked to identify the bottled beverage they most associate with living a healthy lifestyle. In the survey, respondents were asked, "Please think about living a healthy lifestyle. Which one bottled beverage do you associate most with living a healthy lifestyle?" The results were as follow (in descending order):

The members of the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) continue to respond to the ongoing lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint, Michigan, affecting 100,000 families. IBWA member companies - including Absopure, Flint Culligan, Maumee Valley Bottlers, Nestle Waters North America (NWNA), and Niagara - have so far donated the equivalent of 1.5 million bottles of bottled water.

Drinking water - tap, filtered, or bottled - is important for healthy hydration and plays a vital role in people's lives. Consumers choose bottled water for several reasons, including taste, quality, and convenience.

The bottled water industry provides both fluoridated and non-fluoridated brands to provide consumers with choice, quality and convenience. A number of IBWA member companies produce fluoridated bottled water for consumers who want fluoride in their drinking water and wish to choose bottled water.

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) has released a new YouTube video "Bottled Water: The Big Picture" to provide an informative and educational video for consumers that shines a light on actions taken by bottled water companies to produce a safe, healthy, high quality product and improve their products, protect the environment, stand by sound science, and safeguard water as a resource for future generations.

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) has been awarded the APEX 2017 Award of Excellence for its bimonthly magazine, Bottled Water Reporter. The publication, which competed against more than 300 entrants in the category for magazines, journals, and tabloids, is the only trade magazine in the nation that exclusively covers the bottled water industry-America's No. 1 packaged beverage-reporting on trends, issues, and innovations. IBWA Publications Manager Sabrina Hicks said this was the first year the trade association entered its magazine in the international competition, which evaluates communications publications on criteria such as graphic design, quality of editorial content, and the success of the entry in conveying the message and achieving overall communications effectiveness.